Apparatus for removing foil from bottles



(No Model.)

. 4 G.- A. MUELLER.

APPARATUS FOR REMOVING FOIL FROM BOTTLES.

Patented Feb. 4, 1896.

Inventor- M Attorney.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

GEORGE A. MUELLER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE WIEDEMAN, JR, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

APPARATUS FOR REMOVING FOIL FROM BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,997, dated February 4, 1896.

Application filed September 25, 1895. $erial No. 563,623- (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. MUELL R, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gin= cinnati, in the count-y of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Removing Foil from the Necks of Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had-t0 the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a novel apparatus for removing tin or gold foil or paper from the necks of bottles which have once been used when it is desired to cleanse them for further use, and it has for its object the production of simple and efficient means for doing this work in the most expeditious manner.

The novelty of my invention will be hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken, of an apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on the dotted line 00 a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the working end of one of the yielding strippers.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the figures.

In its preferred form the apparatus consists of a spindle A, suitably journaled in a stationary head B, and carrying a driving-pulley O, and loose pulley D, belted to the drivingshaft. Upon the projecting end of the spindle, which is threaded, is screwed, after the manner of a lathe-chuck, a circular disk E, Fig. 2, having transverse gains or mortises a on its periphery. In these mortises are laid the rear ends of flat projecting scraping-bars F G, of spring metal, and to lock their ends rigidly with the disk E, I employ a divided ring H, which surrounds the periphery of the disk E, and is provided with flanges b, by which its two parts can be clamped together by bolts or screws 0 to bind upon the ends of the bars F G and securely lock the latter to the disk E. I have shown eight of these scraping-bars, of which the four F are the longest and the four alternate bars G are about half as long. The ends of these bars are bent first inward and then outward, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to form V- shaped scraping-knuckles cl,whose inner sides are grooved, as seen at e, Fig. 3, to afford scraping edges. The outwardly-flaring ends of the scraping-bars also afford throats for the ready guiding and introduction of the necks of the bottles.

In a bracket-arm I, secured to the head B, is vertically adjustable a guiding-trough J, carried on a post K, passing through a perforation in the arm I, and held, when adjusted up or down, by set-screw f.

The spindle A, carrying the scraping-bars F G, is revolved at high speed, and the attendant places a bottle with its neck toward the bars in the trough J, and pushes it forward until theneck is engaged by the scraping-knuckles first of the bars F and then of the bars G, the neck being advanced as far as is necessary to remove under the action of the rapidly-revolving knuckles whatever may be adhering to it, whether tin-foil, gold-foil, or

paper.

The action of cleansing the neck of the bottle is almost instantaneous, requiring only the pushing in of the bottle and its instant withdrawal, the scraping-knuckles acting both on the advance and retraction of the neck, and owing to the yielding character of the bars the knuckles fit themselves to whatever swells or depressions there may be in the neck of the bottle and effectually remove every particle of adhering matter.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim-- 1. In a bottleneck-scraping apparatus, the combination of the revolving spindle, A, the disk, E, carried thereby, the clamping-ring, H, and the spring scraping-bars held between said diskand ring, substantially as described.

2. In a bottle neck-scraping apparatus, the combination of a supporting-frame, a revolving member therein, a series of revolving yielding scrapers, carried thereby, and a vertically-adjustable bottle support and guide, substantially as described.

GEORGE A. MUELLER.

Witnesses:

J. THOMSON ORoss, BERNARD J. I-IAUsEELD. 

